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Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey info Wonder | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...Poop Show...

Author: By Janssen J. Siegfried, | Title: Reporter Puts On Egyptian Guise, Wags Spear at Aida | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years ago. He skits up and down his poop deck, pausing only long enough to snap his verbal whip...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

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